I notice that Wizzley is really lagging behind Squidoo and other article directories in terms of indexing of pages.

On Squidoo, if I publish a new page, tag it properly, and promote it on-site, it's indexed by Google within a matter of days. Even on EzineArticles, just a flat article directory, stuff I post gets indexed almost immediately. With Wizzley, this doesn't seem to happen very fast. I have published a page on chun mee green tea on Jan. 3rd that is still not indexed by Google (and I've shared it on Google+ which I know helps indexing). Many of my other pages are also not indexed. So far I've published 6 pages and only 2 are indexed. Two have been unindexed going back through Dec 24th.

I know that external sharing will help these pages get indexed and I'm planning on doing more social media sharing of my pages (I've just done Google+ so far) and maybe linking to them from other sites I control. So I'm not concerned about my own pages.

But I do think this is a sign that maybe something could be improved...maybe something about the internal organization of the site? I notice there's a sitemap but I think internal links are very important.

I've just checked and my article is now indexed by Google. It was sometime during the past 45 minutes (as I was distracted by 'Finding Bigfoot' and didn't refresh. >.> ). That makes it just over an hour between publication and index.

Cazort, I guess the problem in your case was with the approval time etc. One of my articles took over a month before it was indexed. It was my 3rd or 4th article. After the 5th article the others were indexed within hours just like the others have stated.

Ahh, that makes sense, so new articles published after becoming approved will presumably be indexed faster, presumably because of changes in nofollow/dofollow or other changes related to indexing and crawling by search engine robots?

Thanks, chef. I thought it was the other way around. At I least I now know it's possible for my first two pages to be indexed by Google; I just have to do a bit of waiting, and not necessarily spin out another 3 articles and become trusted author ASAP to get my pages indexed.